The Glory Of The Sublime

Words defined deeply within my heart
Visions from which to start
A world where love and grace are known
Where God's WORD in deed be shown
An understanding of TRUTH and care
A world of peace, praise and prayer
A world that lives within my soul
A knowing that sounds its toll
The gifts of life, earth and time
Embrace the glory of the sublime.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Winds of Summer Day 2003 , Watercolor, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, www.apogeeart.com

The Creator's Enfold

These thoughts birthed and bred
In words of musings to be read
What is real and truth over time
Are the castings of the sublime
Loss and fear one and the same
Call for blessings in God's name
Reveal the teachings to behold
Eternal be the Creator's enfold.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

photograph credit to: wordofdesign.co.uk

Abundance Be

Ravage not the land nor sea
Heed the echoed cry and plea
Heard in the crashing wave and thunderous sky
In valleys, plains and mountains high
Hold this Earth in reverent care
Protect our gifts of water and air
Take not in abuse a mineral or gem
Behold the wonder of each bloom, leaf and stem
Trees to flourish, 'tis bounty's call
The knowing grace of Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
Earth, animals, a you, a me
Nurture wise and abundance be.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

In The Fold Of The Muse Divine

The whispers are ever to be heard
in a wind song a voiceless word
In the fold of the muse divine
beyond all space and time
This eternal call of spirit's reach
upon your soul to bequeath
The giving over is the receiving
and real becomes the believing
Known be truth and splendor
to destiny's purpose surrender.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Photograph, Christopher A. Raccioppi, 2008

Phoenix Rising

Despair, devastation
Deliverance I declare
Rise I as the Phoenix
From the ashes
The dark spirit
A faded illusion
And I free
Free.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Andreas Alciato. Emblemata, 1573, celebrated legal scholar of early sixteenth-century Italy,
known for his work in philology and ancient law
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Alchemy to Ring

Seized be this spirit in a moment of dark despair
Absent of knowing God's light and ever loving care
Oppression upon my heart yet be lain
The shackle of emotion still held profane
This mind to silence the daunting echoes of time past
And free this heart from chains cast
Memory to free both heart and soul
Alchemy to ring its welcomed toll
I again in a golden light of faith and love
Served by truth and the heavens above
Clear be the messages of heart now heard
Filled with the glory of God's Word.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Shadows Cast Gold, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2001, www.apogeeart.com
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BRAVO Yashar

Passion's pulse in command
Piano keys await your hand
Sounding this array of emotion
Fingers set in waves of motion
God, Truth, Power, Love and Grace
Known with each finger placed
Piano keys voice spirit’s calling plea
Presence, reflections, lyrical reverie
Gloria Patri be the praise, the claim
Held is this grandeur in your name.

In loving friendship,

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Performance of Yashar Yaslowitz
Bach, Beethoven, Chopin
January 31, 2009
South Nyack Recital Series
Soiree Society of the Arts

Music, Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe